One day, when I went to shoot a video near Taiyuan Street in Shenyang, I parked my car in an above-ground parking lot near the intersection of Zhongshan Road and Taiyuan North Street in Shenyang's Heping District. Parking the car, I stumbled upon a very dilapidated small building in the corner of the parking lot, which was in stark contrast to the modern high-rise buildings around it. I think there must be a story in this house. Out of curiosity, I walked up close and took a closer look.
A dilapidated building in a parking lot near Taiyuan Street in Shenyang
When I came to the small building, I found that this was a small three-storey building with a unique shape, made of red brick, brick-concrete structure, the building had three corners of about 120 °, and the back of the building formed a semi-enclosed space.
Approximate plan of the building (personal hand-drawn, for reference only)
The front and back of the small building present a completely different style, the front wall is inlaid with earth yellow tiles, the tiles have been worn, there are white raised window eaves, and the warm tiles form a sharp contrast, the first floor is several open stores, and the second and third floor windows are green painted old-fashioned wooden windows, a lot of glass has been broken and broken, it seems very vicissitudes.
The front of the small building
The back of the small building is a completely red brick wall, due to the long age of the building, the red brick has also turned black, a small balcony of a wooden structure at the corner of the third floor has been damaged and collapsed, while a nearby wall has cracked and dented, and the semi-enclosed area formed by the angle is piled with debris, which is a bit messy, and the waterproofing of the roof has also been damaged.
The back of the building
Collapsed balcony
Cracked and sunken walls appear
According to observation, the second and third floors of the building should be uninhabited except for the first floor for rent as a store house, or used to store goods and debris. The wall at the back of the staircase is printed with the words "grilled meat" and "pickles", and perhaps there were restaurants operating here. I walked around the building and finally found a staircase on the front of the building, the corridor space was dark and narrow, and the walls were moldy and black. I tried to enter the building from this staircase, but found that the stairs were blocked by sacks full of items, and there was a locked iron door at the end of the stairs, which was obviously inaccessible.
Stair passage blocked by debris
So why is there such a dilapidated small building in such a bustling Taiyuan Street commercial district, but it has not been demolished? What is the origin and story of this small building?
On the side of this small building, I found a black historical building nameplate with the inscription "Shenyang City Historical Building, the former site of Anda Foreign Company, built in the 1920s, was originally used by Anda Foreign Company and Yamamoto Photo Museum" .
Historic building nameplate on the wall
Seeing this historical building nameplate, I suddenly realized that the history of this building is the same as the history of the building I have talked about in many previous videos and articles, and it belongs to the period of Japanese invasion of China. In 1904, japan won the Russo-Japanese War, and they seized the interests of Tsarist Russia in the northeast of the mainland. In order to further seize the throne, in 1906 they established the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., in 1910 built Fengtianyi (now Shenyang Station), and established the Manchurian Railway Annex. They also built many office and commercial buildings on the Mantetsu annex, including the former site of the LangsuKan and the former site of the Matsushima Pavilion that I have introduced to you earlier, and many buildings around Shenyang Station, including today's small building, were completed in that period.
The former site of Anda Foreign Firm
It is understood that this small building was used jointly by the Japanese-run Anda Foreign Company and the Yamamoto Photo Museum, and belonged to the commercial buildings in the Mantetsu annex. Nearly a hundred years have passed, and the old building has become dilapidated, but it carries an indelible history and a black memory of the Japanese invasion of China.
Please always remember, do not forget history, revitalize China!
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